Guyana Times

– 1 critical By Kizzy Coleman and Joseph Allen One woman has lost her life and a man is in critical condition following a two-vehicle collision at Mandela Avenue and Avocado Street, Georgetown on Tuesday evening. Dead is Shana Rice, of 651 Zenith, East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, while Stephen Fiedtkou, 32, is in critical condition. According to reports, the two vehicles – a...

After months of speculation as to where the final of the 2016 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20 tournament will take place, it has been confirmed that Guyana will host the August 7, 2016 showpiece after outbidding Jamaica and two-time hosts Trinidad and Tobago. Guyana’s Education Minister, who has responsibility for Sport, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine confirmed this to Guyana...

Dear Editor, When Sir VS Naipaul wrote about Man Man in Miguel Street how prophetic was he about life and people in Guyana?  Naipaul wrote:  “Then one day Man Man  said he had seen God after having a bath. This didn’t surprise many of us. Seeing God was quite common in Port of Spain and, indeed, in Trinidad at...

By Avenash Ramzan The management team of the Guyana Amazon Warriors on Tuesday began preparations in earnest for the Hero Caribbean Premier League (Hero CPL) 2016 with an interactive session in Georgetown. The session was geared to have the local based players interact with each other, field questions and seek clarifications ahead of CPL 2016. The players who attended were all-rounder...

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has overruled the Court of Appeal in the latest ruling in the matter of Errol Campbell v Janette Narine where the appellant, Errol Campbell, was represented by Attorneys at Law Sanjeev Datadin and Charles Ramson Jr MP. The matter concerned the validity of an agreement of sale for a property at a...

Anthony Drayton is unbeaten after three rounds of the Engineering and Construction Inc (ECI) chess tournament, and by virtue is setting pretty atop the points standing. Drayton has racked up a clean slate of three wins from three, and is the only player to have earned the maximum number of points on offer at the National Resource Centre, Woolford...

After much speculation as to where the finals of the 2016 Hero Caribbean Premier League T20 tournament will take place, news coming to hand is that it will go South to Guyana this time around. Guardian Media was reliably informed that the government of Guyana has outdone the governments of T&T and Barbados in a three-way bid to host...

Good Hope fire/homicide – IAC calls for end to haemorrhaging of innocent lives By Kizzy Coleman Police have arrested and are interrogating a man for the murder of the two Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) rice farmers who were killed after bandits set their home ablaze on Sunday night. Bibi Munir, 70, and her husband Mohammed Munir, 77, of Lot 16 Good...

Guyana’s only female cricket team on Sunday last received a major boost when its official sponsor renewed its cricket sponsorship for another year. Metro Office and computer Supplies since 2009 has been the official sponsor of the Rose Hall Town Metro Female Team and the company during the RHTY&SC’s 26th annual awards ceremony handed over a cheque for $200,000...

A Lusignan, East Coast Demerara teen was on Tuesday arraigned on a larceny charge when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Eighteen-year-old Khemraj Persaud pleaded not guilty to the charge which stated that on March 29, 2016, at Port Kaituma, North West District, he stole 0,000, property of Basdeo Persaud. Prosecutor Deniro Jones related...